Elder brother's garrison

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However, just as Mr. Barbatos was boasting, the telephone on his desk rang.

Mr. Barbatos picked up the phone with displeasure: "Didn't I tell you not to call me unless it's something important?"

Mr. Barbatos said so.

"Mr. Ba...it really is something serious." The elegant and melodious female voice on the other end of the phone said with a hint of panic.

Hearing a pleasant female voice prevented Mr. Barbatos from immediately becoming angry.

"What big event is this? Is the deep sea flooding? Is there an SSS-level commission? Or is some high-ranking official coming to inspect?"

"Neither... Someone attacked an admiral in the auditorium."

“Then why don’t you just punish them according to the rules?” Mr. Barbatos said unhappily. “What about your work experience? Can’t you be flexible about this?”

"The person we hit... has a rather unusual background." The woman's voice was filled with embarrassment.

"Special? So what if it's special? Do you know that the emperor is subject to the same laws as commoners? Punish him! Punish him severely!" Mr. Barbatos was furious.

These people should not be tolerated, neither morally nor logically!

Taking advantage of their special status to bully others! I, Barbatos, will be the first to stand up for this!

Besides, how special can the first sea area really be? Those princes and princesses just have a bunch of powerful ship girls coming through here before heading to the next sea area, right? No matter how powerful you are, you can't be more powerful than them.

Mr. Barbatos guessed that he was at most the son of some wealthy merchant or something.

“Mr. Ba, she is the admiral of the rookie naval base.”

"Newbie Naval Base? What a terrible name! The person who named it must be crazy, hahaha... Wait, what?"

"Yes. Mr. Ba, it's that rookie naval base."

Naval bases will not have the same name twice.

There is only one rookie garrison in the world.

Mr. Barbatos happens to know one.

So he quickly hung up the phone and scrambled out of the office.

Mr. Barbatos didn’t even notice his large belly churning beneath him like waves as he ran down from the third floor.

He ran into the auditorium and immediately saw the crowds gathered around the entrance to the dining area.

"What are you all crowding around for? Move out! Move out!" Mr. Barbatos panicked at the thought that things might be heading in the worst possible direction and immediately ran over there.

Most of the admirals here don't recognize Barbatos, but they can spot the work clothes he's wearing that are about to burst from his fat and the name tag with the words "General Manager" pinned to his chest.

The group of people were so frightened that they quickly moved aside.

Behind the door to the dining area, the woman he had just spoken to had been waiting for him for quite some time.

The moment she saw him, she opened her mouth as if she had seen a savior: "Mr. Ba..."

"Stop talking, you've done a great job, leave it to me." Mr. Barbatos smoothed his hair and gave him a sickeningly sweet look.

As Xiao Bai was watching Veneto reprimand Luo Yin, he suddenly felt the ground tremble.

She turned around and looked towards the entrance to the dining area.

—Over there, a fleshy blob dressed in a black suit was running towards him.

"Huh?!" Little White was startled.

"Sir! Sir! Ah? No, Miss! Miss!" The fleshy ball jumped towards her. "Dear Miss, are you hurt?"

Xiao Bai then realized that the fleshy ball was actually a person.

Oh, he's still wearing his manager's uniform.

"Huh? I didn't, thanks for your concern." Little White said to the meatball, "Um, my ship girl just... well, she beat up an admiral."

"Oh my God, how could such a cruel thing happen!" Mr. Barbatos exclaimed in shock as he pulled off his hat after hearing Little White's words.

"Uh, well, that is after all..."

"How could such an innocent and adorable girl be driven to the point of wanting to hit someone?! Just how cruel was the man who angered you?!"

"what?"

what's going on?

Not only Xiaobai, but all the admirals present, including the ship girls, were stunned for a moment.

"Oh my dear lady, you are so intelligent and beautiful, so elegant. Surely, your pure heart has never known anger or hatred. You are an angel, you are a god! But! Even angels have their limits! You must have been greatly insulted! You must have been shocked by what that murderous man did! Even you, even someone as pure as you, must have felt a tiny bit of anger in your transparent heart!" Mr. Barbatos knelt on one knee, his entire fleshy body shifting half a meter towards the ground. "Oh my God, let me see how angry our handsome and excellent admiral has become!"

Mr. Barbatos stretched out his hand and said to Little White.

Xiaobai remained in a state of shock.

Huh? Who's this uncle with that translator's accent? Why is he talking to me the whole time? What's going on?

"Then I'll see which damned bastard dares to do such a terrible thing to such a beautiful young woman!" Mr. Barbatos turned his head, his previously reverent face instantly filled with resentment and regret. "I, Barbatos, swear I will make him pay the price!"

—Hurry up, before this little devil loses her temper and destroys the Admiral's Guild, quickly shift her anger onto some scapegoat!

Barbatos first set his sights on Roin, who was being taught a lesson by Veneto and was beginning to question his life.

"Is that you, you bastard who deserves to be smacked on the head by Aunt Susan's slippers!" Mr. Barbatos glared fiercely at Luo Yin.

Luo Yin quickly took two steps back.

As the strongest admiral here, Luo Yin had seen Barbatos before.

He knew, of course, that this person was someone he absolutely could not afford to offend.

“No,” Xiaobai answered for Luo Yin. “Well, Veneto hit the one lying in the back.”

As Xiaobai spoke, the crowd that had been tightly packed around suddenly took several steps back, revealing Ian, who was still unconscious on the ground.

"Is this the rascal? Beautiful lady, wait here, I, Barbatos, will go up and slap him twice for you!" Mr. Barbatos, sleeves out, was about to step forward.

"Oh, no need. He was knocked unconscious by Veneto after all, so let's just forget about it."

“Oh, what a kind young girl! Your kindness will earn you the respect of everyone!” said Mr. Barbatos.

However, he still wasn't going to let Ian go.

Mr. Barbatos turned his head and looked at the hostess with a serious expression: "Who is this person? He is not allowed to set foot in the Admiral's Guild from now on. I mean, not from now on! And right now, throw him out immediately!"

The hostess nodded and raised her hand. The guards who had come over earlier, sensing that something was wrong, came in, grabbed Ian by the limbs, and threw him out the door.

"Thump!" The sound of the impact with the ground was quite obvious.

"Luo Yin, and you too, how dare you stand opposite this young lady's ship girl? Are you going to make things difficult for her like he did?!" Barbatos finished dealing with Ian, then looked up and angrily pointed at Luo Yin, saying, "Considering we've had a few conversations, I'll give you another chance to choose!"

Luo Yin stared blankly at Xiao Bai and Veneto, who was looking at him.

Several seconds passed before he finally realized something.

—This little girl seems to have an unusual background.

"I'm sorry! I was wrong!" Luo Yin was a very pragmatic person, and he bowed to Xiao Bai as deeply as possible.

“What did you do wrong?!” Barbatos asked.

Luo Yin was almost in tears.

I just came out to ask and remind this young lady. What did I do wrong?

I'm really not familiar with Ian. We've only talked to each other occasionally, and I know he's a bit of a smart aleck. I'm really desperate.

“I…I shouldn’t have disturbed this beautiful young lady while she was dealing with her own affairs!” Luo Yin said, bowing his head.

It broke our hearts.

Barbatos then smiled.

The emperor is subject to the same laws as the common people, but while they are subject to the same laws, do you dare to question them?

Even if I gave you the imperial sword to execute a tyrannical emperor or a treacherous minister, you wouldn't dare!

If the emperor punishes you, that's your good fortune!

Don't be ungrateful!

Chapter 211 Nia's Identity

"Don't let me see you today!" Barbatos cursed at Luo Yin again.

"Yes, Mr. Barbatos." After being scolded, Luo Yin left the Admiral's Guild with an extremely conflicted expression, not daring to look at Veneto, who was standing with his hands on his hips.

Barbatos was already being very kind, only asking himself to disappear quickly without inflicting any punishment on himself.

After Mr. Barbatos finished lecturing Luo Yin, he immediately turned to Xiao Bai with a professional smile and asked, "My dear lady, what do you think?"

Barbatos's face was so chubby that it looked like a fleshy panda.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Little White didn't understand what Barbatos meant by what he said.

As a minor, Xiaobai couldn't connect with the thought processes of this kind of conversation between adults.

"This is the punishment you gave to those two damned brats who offended you, Miss," Mr. Barbatos said, clenching his fists. "The one who must have had some kind of brain malfunction before, causing your ship girl to attack, has been banned from ever setting foot in the guild again. The other one has also been kicked out. Are you satisfied?"

"Ah..." Xiaobai then realized that Mr. Barbatos was asking for his opinion.

To be honest, Xiaobai felt that she was the one who went too far. After all, neither of them had shown any malice towards her from beginning to end; it was just that one of them's actions made her feel a little disgusted.

But since we've already fought, we can't exactly apologize.

But things kept going in the wrong direction. The guild leader didn't question his wrongdoing at all, and instead, even a fool could see that he was being unfairly favored.

"Um, do I need to pay a fine?" Xiaobai asked tentatively.

"A fine? What fine? Oh, which idiot made our dear lady pay a fine? When did our guild ever have such an outrageous rule?!" Mr. Barbatos broke out in a cold sweat the moment he heard Little White's words. "Who said that! Step forward!"

"Who was it that you just yelled at and kicked out?"

"He's talking nonsense!" Mr. Barbatos exclaimed indignantly. "I set the rules, do you think I don't know what I wrote? I wrote that any verbal altercation within the guild would result in a fine of 50,000 merit points, and depending on the subsequent developments, those with serious offenses would be fined ten to twenty times that amount!"

"Then, should I..."

"Yes! My dear lady, you certainly didn't have a verbal altercation with that brat, right?"

"Uh?"

“I, Barbatos, believe that a well-mannered girl like you would not do such a vulgar thing. I believe you are innocent. You see, I wrote that a fine is only imposed for a verbal altercation. Since you did not have a verbal altercation, why are you being fined?” Barbatos said righteously.

The surrounding crowd listened in stunned silence.

Holy crap, is this even possible?

So, you can just kick someone without being punished?

Xiao Bai was so frightened that he couldn't speak.

"Then...am I not responsible?"

“Of course! My dear customer, you are the most outstanding person I have ever met. You upheld justice and attacked the enemy who dared to challenge your bottom line. Not only are you not responsible, but you are also the benefactor who purified the environment of this guild from becoming a breeding ground for insidious and cunning parasites!” Barbatos said, while pulling out a black card from his clothes. “My dear lady, this is ten thousand merits. Please accept my sincerest gratitude!”

The surrounding admirals stared at Barbatos with their mouths agape.

Holy crap, they even charge money for this?

Ten thousand merit points! That's the price of a hundred deep-sea metals! And it's just given away like that?

Even Xiaobai felt embarrassed now.

"No need..."

"No, no, please accept this. It is my most sincere gratitude to you on behalf of our guild!" Barbatos held up the black card as if he wouldn't let go until you accepted it.

Xiao Bai had no choice but to accept.

—I always have this subtle feeling that I'm some kind of gangster collecting protection money.

After Xiaobai accepted the black card, Barbatos breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with relief.

“My dear lady, now that this matter is settled, I shall take my leave. If you need me for anything else, please inform any of the staff here. I, Barbatos, guarantee that as long as I am on duty, no, whenever it is, I will arrive at your side as quickly as possible!” Barbatos seemed to transform into a knight, solemnly swearing an oath to Little White.

"Okay, sure..." Xiaobai nodded.

Barbatos chuckled, then looked at the crowd surrounding him.

"What are you looking at? Looking for punishment?" Barbatos shouted angrily at the group of people.

I just lost 10,000 merit points! That was all the hard-earned money I'd made over the past few days, and I'm really feeling the pinch right now.